Todoh is the creator
and main teacher of Todoh style karate, which derives its style from Aikido
and Kendo. Todoh had a long standing rivalry with disciples of the Kyokugenryu
school of karate and considers them a threat to his style of teaching in
terms of profits as well as personal animosity dating back to a rivalry
with Takuma Sakazaki when both
men were very young.

On his quest to find
his younger sister Yuri, who had been abducted by Mr.
Big under Geese Howard's orders,
Ryo
Sakazaki blatantly attacked Todoh at his school and fought him to interrogate
him about the whereabouts of his sister. After Ryo easily defeated Todoh,
he was humiliated and saw his schools finances as well as his attendance
at his schools suffer. After the loss, Todoh went into hiding and hasn't
been seen since. Because of his disappearance, his daughter Kasumi
went on a personal quest to not only try to look for her father, but to
gain revenge on Ryo and all Kyokugenryu disciples to try to reclaim her
family's honor.

Todoh was a
somewhat generic and bad guy in the original Art of Fighting... but at
the same time, he was an original for a fighting game / video game character.
Ironically enough, I was sad to see him go in AOF2/AOF3.
Considering some of the "new guys" SNK added in the sequels, I
actually kinda missed Todoh.

After his appearance in AOF, Todoh didn't make a playable appearance in
fighting games for many many years. It actually seemed to be a running joke, as
SNK stuck Todoh in many backgrounds throughout the KOF series (and
in other games as well).

Todoh made his epic return in Capcom VS SNK 2... and I for one was excited to
see him return! With Capcom's help, Todoh ended up being a really cool and
charismatic character in CVS2. His animations and taunts in CVS2 are
pretty awesome to say the least.